Question

Miguel completed the division problem below. What is Miguel's error? A.He included a 5 in the quotient, which does not belong. B.He multiplied the divisor by 10 and the dividend by 100. C.He subtracted 208 from 234 incorrectly. D.He multiplied the divisor by 100 and the dividend by 10.

Answer 1

D - He multiplied the divisor by 100 and the dividend by 10.

Answer 2

The image of the division problem is missing, so i have attached it.

Answer:

D: He multiplied the divisor by 100 and the dividend by 10.

Explanation:

From the image, we can see from the initial values, they are trying to divide 0.52 by 754.

In Mathematics, it means that 0.52 is the divisor while 754 is the dividend.

Now, the next step sees 0.52 changed to 52 while 754 changes to 7540.

Now, 0.52 to 52 means 0.52 was multiplied by 100.

This means that 754 should also be multiplied by 100 to give 75400 in order to retain the original answer that would have been gotten if we had divided 0.52 by 754.

Yet they used 7540.

Thus,the error is that he multiplied the divisor by 100 while he multiplied the dividend by 10.